Mini Hydro Power Stations

Mini Hydro Power Stations
Author: United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Technology Programme
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1981
Genre: Hydroelectric power plants
ISBN:

Agrindex

Agrindex
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 806
Release: 1981
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Fragments for a History of the Human Body

Fragments for a History of the Human Body
Author: Michel Feher
Publisher: Zone Books
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1989
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

"The first approach can be called vertical since what is explored here is the human body's relationship to the divine, to the bestial and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. The second approach covers the various junctures between the body's "outside" and "inside": it can therefore be called a "psychosomatic" approach, studying the manifestation - or production - of soul and the expression of emotions through the body's attitudes, and, on another level, the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain and death. Finally, the third approach ... brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how a certain organ or bodily substance can be used to justify or challenge the way human society functions ..." - foreword Part 3.

Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-carbon Economy

Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-carbon Economy
Author: Zach Willey
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822341680

As the United States moves to a low-carbon economy in order to combat global warming, credits for reducing carbon dioxide emissions will increasingly become a commodity that is bought and sold on the open market. Farmers and other landowners can benefit from this new economy by conducting land management practices that help sequester carbon dioxide, creating credits they can sell to industry to "offset" industrial emissions of greenhouse gases. This guide is the first comprehensive technical publication providing direction to landowners for sequestering carbon and information for traders and others who will need to verify the sequestration. It will provide invaluable direction to farmers, foresters, land managers, consultants, brokers, investors, regulators, and others interested in creating consistent, credible greenhouse gas offsets as a tradable commodity in the United States. The guide contains a non-technical section detailing methodologies for scoping of the costs and benefits of a proposed project, quantifying offsets of various sorts under a range of situations and conditions, and verifying and registering the offsets. The technical section provides specific information for quantifying, verifying, and regulating offsets from agricultural and forestry practices. Visit the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions website for audio from the press conference announcing the book. Read the press release announcing the book.

The Report of the President's National Bipartisan Commission on Central America

The Report of the President's National Bipartisan Commission on Central America
Author: United States. National Bipartisan Commission on Central America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1984
Genre: Central America
ISBN:

"On July 19, 1983, President Ronald Reagan established the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America to examine the social, economic, and democratic conditions in the region and to provide advice that could evolve into a comprehensive U.S. policy for Central America. Headed by Henry A. Kissinger, the twelve-member commission included the president of the AFL-CIO, a retired justice of the Supreme Court, the mayor of San Antonio, the president of Boston University, a professor of economics from Yale, a former ambassador and chairman of the Democratic Party, a financier and former senator, a former governor of Texas, a business leader, a political scientist, and a physician and humanitarian"--Back cover.

Fiscal Federalism and Political Decentralization

Fiscal Federalism and Political Decentralization
Author: Nuria Bosch
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1848442718

This highly original book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. The three key issues required for a well designed financing system are analyzed in depth herein, namely: tax assignment, equalization grants (i.e. redistribution of money from the wealthy regions or the national government to poorer regions) and the role of regional government in the administration of taxes. Fiscal Federalism and Political Decentralization will be of particular interest to academics and researchers of economics, public economics, public finance and public choice. It will also appeal to politicians and policy makers as well as organizations and agencies related to the economy and fiscal federalism.

Climate Change

Climate Change
Author: Johan Eliasch
Publisher: Earthscan
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1844077721

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.